These days we are simply surrounded by different software frameworks. Just to name a few: Java, .Net and, actually, many more. Have you ever wondered how those work or have you ever wanted or needed to implement one? In this article, I will cover a simple or even trivial runtime framework.

I doubt whether there is anybody in either AV industry or among reverse engineers who does not know what a software packer is. Malware research and reverse engineering forums are full of packers' related questions, descriptions thereof, unpacking suggestions and links to both packers and unpackers. In short - people have been doing a lot of precious work on defeating packers and protectors.